Are at least most supplied (even on the companion CD) or known freeware clients smart enough to handle style 1 or 2 as needed? (I'm thinking ethereal as a likely example, since for many purposes it's _much_ nicer than snoop; but I haven't looked at the code of either.)
AFAIK, a client can issue a DL_INFO_REQ to find out, among other things, whether the device it opened corresponds to a style 1 or style 2 provider; but it wouldn't surprise me if some programs simply take one or the other for granted. Since Sun's network drivers have historically been mostly style 2, I trust the conversion to style 1 as drivers are nemo-ified will be well publicized, so that application developers would be reminded to ensure that their code checks for style 1 vs style 2 providers and either doesn't or does issue an attach, respectively. On systems with lots of interfaces, will there be any problem with increased consumption of major (?) device numbers with a style 1 provider? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
